[DUG] Work Wanted in Wellington

[Leigh Wanstead]

Hi Phil,

I am not saying amazon let you free to read their books on their website. I
am saying the hacker grab semi data related to the book i.e. book name,
publisher name, author name,

Product Details

   - *Age Range:* 1 - 6 years
   - *Lexile Measure:* 460L (What's this?
   <http://www.amazon.com/Very-Hungry-Caterpillar-Eric-Carle/dp/0399226907/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404429937&sr=1-1#>
   )
   - *Board book:* 13 pages
   - *Publisher:* Philomel; Brdbk edition (March 23, 1994)
   - *Language:* English
   - *ISBN-10:* 0399226907
   - *ISBN-13:* 978-0399226908
   - *Product Dimensions: *5 x 7.1 x 0.7 inches
   - *Shipping Weight:* 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies
   <http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/shipping.html/ref=dp_pd_shipping?ie=UTF8&asin=0399226907&seller=ATVPDKIKX0DER>
   )


the information of the book list like this url
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books/b/ref=Bks_5p_B2_KIDS_I?ie=UTF8&node=4&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&pf_rd_r=14Q75PTMKPP85X24MQ5S&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1841374422&pf_rd_i=283155

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=s9_dnav_bw_SRK0A_s?node=283155,!2334088011,!2334119011,9014217011,9039580011,9040851011&search-alias=stripbooks&field-feature_five_browse-bin=2578998011&bbn=9039580011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-2&pf_rd_r=1BMGP2CV7W3BS6BBKPGG&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1806217582&pf_rd_i=2578998011

Regards
Leigh



On 4 July 2014 11:14, Phil Scadden <p.scadden at gns.cri.nz> wrote:

> Any restriction on scraping can be bypassed with enough effort - even if
> you put data into image. To my mind it is a flawed business model if you
> are trying to sell data that users can browse for free. Amazon isnt
> selling its information about books, it sells the books and no, you
> cannot browse them on the website. Maybe there is equivalent to read
> sample (which only shows you same two pages no matter what ip you use).
>
> The usual annoyance scraping is someone concentrating your data for
> comparison purpose (eg pricespy) so they get advertising revenue instead
> of you. If you are just one of dozens of sites, then you want to make
> cost/reward too high to bother scraping. If this is targeted on only
> your website, and the data you have displayed is intrinsically valuable,
> then good luck.
>
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